DL/A-Z//ALLE - [Correspondence with Robert Allen]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//ALLE
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with Robert Allen]
Date/s
17/10/1985-06/11/1985
Quantity & Format
2 Letters (typescript and MS)
Creator
Allen, Robert
Scope and content
001 is a letter from journalist Robert Allen to Doris Lessing. Allen alludes to an interview of Lessing that he has recently written up. Mentions the Booker prize. Alludes to a letter from Lessing: “I appreciate what you say about being “misrepresented”...” Discusses interviews with authors. Discusses criticism of The Good Terrorist from Irish and English perspectives. Discusses the troubles, mentioning Dominic McGlinchey, Jeffrey Archer and Ian Paisley. Mentions Lenin in Zurich and The Secret Agent. Mentions South Africa and the left in Britain.
002 is a letter from Lessing to Allen, complaining about what she characterises as a fabrication regarding the Booker prize in Allen’s interview of her: “You make me say “[bourgeois] media and multi-nationals ease their consciences by giving dirty money..” But I said nothing of the kind.”
002 is a letter from Lessing to Allen, complaining about what she characterises as a fabrication regarding the Booker prize in Allen’s interview of her: “You make me say “[bourgeois] media and multi-nationals ease their consciences by giving dirty money..” But I said nothing of the kind.”
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DL - Doris Lessing Archive
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
- DL/A-Z//ALLE - [Correspondence with Robert Allen]
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit